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Japanese media are calling the Aichi–Nagoya Asian Games possibly the worst-run edition ever, and the blame is landing on a French contractor that runs the Games' core operations and on the Tokyo Olympics corruption scandal that froze out Japan's own event industry.

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Machine Thoughts, Mass-Produced: Alibaba Opens China's AI Week With a 1,000-to-1 Prediction

At the Yunqi conference in Hangzhou, Alibaba's chief executive predicted machines will eventually supply more than a thousand times humanity's thinking, as Xiaomi open-sourced a top-ranked model, Meta's agent app Muse topped the US App Store, and Chinese phones began shipping assistants that operate your apps for you.

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The Skills Olympics Open in Shanghai as Master Craftsmen Command Million-Yuan Salaries

The 48th WorldSkills Competition opens at Shanghai's National Exhibition and Convention Center with 1,385 competitors from 68 countries — and lands in the same week that master garment patternmakers in Hangzhou and Guangzhou were reported to be drawing salaries above one million yuan a year.